Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


tween the aXles ana does NJ
the construction OF the car.
A GOOD EXAMPLE is set by the PhN111. n
merchant who has Just given away a large
part OF his wealth in order, as he says, thao
he might see tor himself the benefits derived
from 1t. He thus makes sure that ms SlIts
viii he used according to his own plans, ana,
more important still, that they Will not De
dispute by clamOrous heirs.
THE American Medical Journal saws that in
the decline of life. when exhausted nature
habitually repels the restorative influence OF
sleep, there is nothing so suitable to induce
beautiful repo-e as one half to one teaspoonIul
OF bromidia at bedtime. 1t may be taken
for wears, in the same dose, with the same
effect and without detrlment but ne err eX-
cept under advice OF the family physlc an
Hermann SHoPE, of Charleston, W. Va,
was nightly scared the other night when he
got up for drink of water. and u.s. d glass
in which his small n had left a marble. AS
it rolled down his throat he was certain that
he mad swallowed a mouse. or a Lizard, or
snake, he didn't know which, and was SUR
that he felt it in his stomach. He was much
relieved when he learned the truth
BR DGEPORT WOMAN went to her dentist
the other day with a chunk of gold as hig as
hickory nut, which she said had dropped out
| OF one of her teeI while she was eating break
fast The dentist assured her that she mao
careful examination show ed that she had LOST
no filing whatever. The question now agltat-
ing the lady is, Nv here did that nugget come
fron"
THE Senate of Hamburg has bestowed NJ
honorary freedom of the city upon Mr.. Gus
tav Christian Schwabe of London, &C
acknowledgement of his gift of collection of
paintings by English artists, which is SAID to
have cost him 100 100000 marks. Mr..
Schwabe has further presented the city with
the sum of 10000 marks toward the neces-
sary al erai0ns in the PUNISHABLE for the re-
ception OF the pictures.
A GERMAN botanist has discovered a source
of brandy and alcohol in the poppy. 1t APP
pears that the pulp which covers the poppy
seed contai1s saccharine matter which, after
due fermentation and distilla ion. produces
kind of brandy of an agreeable flavor. AS
this pulp has been hitherto brown away, the
discovery, 1t is SAT-, affords poppy planters
an oppor uni tv of realizing more profit from
their crops without very great expenditure
of capital.
THE very curious question as to whether
! policeman can with impunity be compared to
pill was decided at one of the Paris police
courts the other day. The prisoner. Frnes-
| tine Roussel had remarked 10 policeman
! who told her to move on, "Fu me fais Pehet
| dune pilule." She acquitted on the
| ground that there are thousand KINDS OF
pills. the effects of which are of the most va
/
mention any particular oDe."
MISS ANNA BARBER, of Akron, O.. was sit
ting alone in a cutter, which was drawn up
| by the sidewalk, when two racing hOrsemen
! drove furiOusly down the street from behind
! her. The thill of one Of the cutters struck
! Nj 5 Barber on the side, glanced of, went
| through her sealskin sacque, and she was
! carried over the dashboard, over her horses
! head, and some rods along the street, dang
| ing from the thil of the racing cutter. She
was not seriously injured.
FOR extingushing fires IN closed spaces
where water would do much damage, Ger
man physicist recommends a compound
whose burning quickly absorbs the oxygen
| ana renders com uat'ou impossible. ii - pre-
| paratlon contains 50 parts of powdered salt
! petre, IS parts of powdered sulphur, part
! OF powdered charcoal, and part of colco:har
| drown oxide of from. He keeps the
mixture in five pound paste hoard boxes, with
| fuse protIudlnS TO insure lighting 1t,
A Boston man who travels to and from his
! home on railroad thought that the efftct OF
| daily riding in the Fl thy smoking cars of the
! road mus h We a dcmoralizing effect. So he
! inves q tted. and in time established the fol-
| lowing facts: TIL; proportion OF men who
| come 10 town in the morning with unShayen
| faces Is 5 per cent. greater in the smoking
! than in the other cars, and that OF men whose
! boots are unblacb ed is 81 per cent. more in
| the former than in the laJLer.
GREAT MUSICIANS should write plenty of
! autograph music to leave to their heirs. A
! small sheet of Bach's autograph score brought
! SIS at a recent sale at Paris. while a letter of
Joseph Bonaparte's defending his brother
| against rOyalist criticism was knocked down
! at 50, while nine lette from Cardinal de
I Bern- to Noitaire went at $72 for the lot, and
| locK of the C0mte de Chambord's balr sold
! for 500 Apparently there is little lnducemert
! for kings in exile to let their hair grow like
that OF unemployed poets.
! APRoPOS OF the nervousness and petulance
displayed by Sardou during the rehearsals of
| his new play, 1.-The Crocodile" a French pa
| per. relates that at the dress rehearsal of
| Lies Ganaches," which was first performed
| at the Gymnase a number Of years ago, Sar-
dou suddenly called to the director, M. Mon
IignV. 81 have to make some changes in one
| OF the scenes: please clear the theatre Of all
| the invited guests" Montigny re Orted q:
"ImpO-siblc! The house Is crowded, as you
see. The elite OF the artistic world is present
writers, actors, Journalists. They are al
persons to whom cannot show the door with
out ceremony" Il am very sOrrv," replied
Sardou. but | have not invited them and
they are in my way. ! have to WORK on the
stage and must even roll up my sleeves.
cannot do this before their eyes. Please ask
them to leave or else shall postpone the re-
learsal.' And the audience accordingly did
leave.
PRACTICAL people, so-called, vino estimate
!
aud cents that it may be expected to bring in.
entirely overlook the solace and pleasure that
"A classical training can supply. Scarcely a
" eek passes that some case IS not reported OF
a VagaDond cheering his moments of cold ana
vacancy by the ueTusa of Greek or ! atm
author whose we'll thumDed work he carr es
about him. Tho latest example of the kind
Is furnished by tramp VINO spent a stormy
day last week in the lookup of Lyons, N. Y.
After enjoying the frugal meal provided by the
village trustees for such unwelcomc yistors he
settled himsel # comfortably by the stove. and,
opening greasy copy OF The Georges, was
soon wandering with Virgil on the sunny
plains of ftaIy. what vast gulf s there be-
tween such Il man and his fellow, but uncdu-
Gated tramp. hose hours of repOse are wasted
in urowsy llstlessness, or, at best, feebly occu-
pied with the pamphlet advertisements Of a
moving machine or Of patent medicine !
Tnere are classicai scholars among the horse
car conductors OF Boston and the c bmen Of
London; and IL IS said that an apt quotation
from a Greek or Latin author. though not the
kind OF remark that usually drops from the
lips OF a hanson driver, has been heard even
from that uneXpe ted source.
MARIA SOPHIA, daughter Of President
Quincy. Of Harvard college, diedR few days
a!o in Quincy, Mass. aged 81 years. THE
life just closed in the old mansion Of Josiah
Quincy of 1870 has BEEN" says the Boston
Transcript, unlike that Of other members OF
her family, very Tetired one, Yet many of